Manchester United – Busby Babes – SIGNED Presentation 18 Months Before Munich – Including Tommy Taylor and Duncan Edwards
£3,500.00
Manchester United 1956
Manchester United: a multi-signed “Busby Babes” autograph sheet, circa 1956, presented with vintage shirt display.
An original printed sheet titled “Manchester United Personalities”, comprising photographic portraits of members of Sir Matt Busby’s Manchester United side, signed in ink by a number of players including Bill Foulkes, Dennis Viollet, Johnny Berry, Jackie Blanchflower, Tommy Taylor, and, significantly, Duncan Edwards and others associated with the celebrated “Busby Babes” team of the mid-1950s. Several of the signatories were among those involved in the Munich air disaster of February 1958, lending the piece particular historical resonance.
The sheet has been attractively mounted alongside a later Manchester United shirt, in a sympathetic display intended to evoke the club’s post-war era. Framed and glazed.
A scarce and poignant survival, such multi-signed items from the Busby Babes period are increasingly difficult to obtain, particularly those incorporating a number of players whose careers, and in some cases lives, were cut short by the 1958 Munich tragedy. The present piece offers a tangible connection to one of the most revered and emotive chapters in the history of English football.
Double mounted and framed, measuring 63cm x 87.5cm
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Manchester United 1956
Manchester United: a multi-signed “Busby Babes” autograph sheet, circa 1956, presented with vintage shirt display.
An original printed sheet titled “Manchester United Personalities”, comprising photographic portraits of members of Sir Matt Busby’s Manchester United side, signed in ink by a number of players including Bill Foulkes, Dennis Viollet, Johnny Berry, Jackie Blanchflower, Tommy Taylor, and, significantly, Duncan Edwards and others associated with the celebrated “Busby Babes” team of the mid-1950s. Several of the signatories were among those involved in the Munich air disaster of February 1958, lending the piece particular historical resonance.
The sheet has been attractively mounted alongside a later Manchester United shirt, in a sympathetic display intended to evoke the club’s post-war era. Framed and glazed.
A scarce and poignant survival, such multi-signed items from the Busby Babes period are increasingly difficult to obtain, particularly those incorporating a number of players whose careers, and in some cases lives, were cut short by the 1958 Munich tragedy. The present piece offers a tangible connection to one of the most revered and emotive chapters in the history of English football.
Double mounted and framed, measuring 63cm x 87.5cm
